Port on the Danish island Fyn

Usage examples of odense.

Danish village of Odense, mostly unchanged since medieval times, and his often unhappy residence in the unrelentlessly bourgeois, modern city Copenhagen, where Andersen -- like his Little Mermaid--was never quite accepted or recognized as he longed to be.

This one was situated right in the middle of the present town of Odense, the capital of Fyn, on a hill called Nonnebjerg.

The existence of this camp was demonstrated partly by the discovery by the artist Ernst Hansen of an old map of Odense on which it was mentioned and partly by trial excavations on the spot -- sufficient being uncovered to confirm the existence here of a fortress of the type now familiar.

He remembered his pet theory that Build Odense might be paying Ellen to leave, in order to somehow extract the best from her husband.

Andersen was the son of a poor shoemaker, an only child, born in Odense, the capital of the Island of Funen.

In Odense, the capital, Ingeborg had lived happily all the fifteen summers of her life.

David Nye, chair of the Center for American Studies, Odense University, Denmark, September 1, 1996.

It indicated that Jens was a Mr Lars Petersen of the Odense Import Company in Denmark.

She was three parts Danish, twenty-three years old and had been born in Odense on Armistice Day, 1918.